Garmin have been tracking the development of Galileo for over a decade and will continue to track its development. Many of their products are Galileo capable, and now that the Galileo system has reached its initial operational capability, they are carefully testing and validating their Galileo capable products and they will provide selected updates at a future date.

Galileo was originally envisaged to be operational in 2008 with a budget of some €3bn (£2.5bn 3.2bn). It now seems set to cost about €10bn by 2020.

It was created by the EU Commission and European Space Agency, but numerous countries from outside Europe contributed, including India, Israel, Saudi Arabia and South Korea.

Until last month, all satellites launched to join the network went up on Russian Soyuz rockets, but the latest batch of four were delivered to orbit by Europe's premier vehicle, Ariane 5.Six more satellites are planned for the full network.

Here at GPS Training we have heard that as long as your GPS is compatible with WAAS/ EGNOS it should be a software update that will enable your handheld Outdoor GPS unit to utilise this new technology. we will have to wait and see.

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Posted By: Brian Worrall | Fri 10th February 2017

Can you please advise whether the Acvtive 12 is currently working with the Galileo system.Many thanks,Brian WorrallCambridge.

Posted By: Jon Monks - GPS Training | Fri 10th February 2017

Brian, thanks for your question. Currently no outdoor GPS units are compatible with Galileo. We will keep you informed as existing units are upgraded to use the new satellite system.